youneverknow Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/10747940...up%2001-23-2004 Here is part of the article: So-called 'Google bombing' is easily Google's #1 problem. What is it? In general, Google bombing is the practice by which people "trick" Google into displaying search results much higher than they should be. Less than a trick and more of a way of exploiting how Google calculates relevance, such bombing practices are what are responsible for the hordes of useless, usually commercial results you get when search for some common items these days. Let's say you wanted to stay at the Copley Square Hotel in Boston. If you go to Google and search on that exact phrase, the first item you get is the actual hotel (followed by a bazillion ads). But let's say that you type in Copley Square Plaza, instead. Bingo, no actual Hotel listing, but dozens of links to third party sites trying to book the Hotel for you. It's a problem that is starting to affect tons of listings at Google, reducing its usefulness day by day. I have found google getting to be very commercial lately and harder to find my search quierries. Are you experiencing this also??? youneverknow Quote
SEO Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 youneverknow: We recently discussed Google bombing in the thread Does A Internal Page Link Affect Ranking? (a slight tangent to the original question ) I have found google getting to be very commercial lately and harder to find my search queries. Are you experiencing this also??? Well you are not alone with these feelings. There are several threads here expressing the same dissatisfaction / frustration. The November algo certainly did shake things up and most of us do not like change. Some of this change actually was for the good though. A lot of the affiliate-type sites were removed from their dominance (over-optimized commercial sites). Actually, a lot more 'directory' type sites are showing up in the SERPs which argue against 'very commercial' results. Google is still tweaking (and will always be modifying) their algorithm so I believe things will get better. It also worth noting that smarter searching will aid in retrieving desired results. We discussed some helpful search hints in Anybody Else Confused About Google? (you can tell by the title of the thread that you are indeed not alone ). At the bottom of the post starting with "Good discussion! Relevancy (in terms of a search result): close logical relationship (and importance to) the searchers request." there are some search suggestions that you may find helpful. Quote
youneverknow Posted January 23, 2004 Author Posted January 23, 2004 Scott Thanks sooo much for the info...again I must say that this forum is a GEM of information and I appreciate your link to previous thread. Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.